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Monday 4 November 2013

Final stage of a walk around Wales Cardiff

More than 300 people finished the final stage of a walk around Wales to raise money for service veterans.

Around the same number of people greeted them when they arrived at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay for a service

Jan Koops, co-founder of Walk on Wales, a former Welsh Guards officer who served in the Falklands, was one of four who walked all of the 870 miles.

Each leg of the walk, which set out on 25 August, has served to remember Welsh veterans.

Mr Koops told BBC Radio Wales: "There are 50 names which have been beautifully inscribed on a silver baton and each day we have commemorated one of those names on the back and where possible the families have been walking with us.

"The whole journey in that way has been truly exceptional and very inspirational and there's a real sense of bringing them home spiritually while we've been walking around the path, which has been shared with the walkers who have joined us."

He said the response has been "humbling" including from primary school children joining the walk.

One of the four to complete the whole walk was Alison Elson, whose Welsh Guardsman stepson, L/Cpl Dane Elson, 22, died when he stepped on a mine in Afghanistan in July 2009.



Alison Elson did the whole walk in memory of her stepson L/Cpl Dane Elson

She said: "I just want to do something in his memory and to raise funds for his colleagues and friends who have come back with life-changing injuries.

"I met one or two Welsh Guards who had served with Dane. It was good to hear stories about him and what he got up to in the Army."

Mrs Elson described the walk as "therapeutic" but said she still felt the grief and loss of step-parents were overlooked.

Mrs Elson brought up her stepson from when he was five but told the Daily Mail she has found that stepmothers do not receive the same sympathy as biological mothers.

She said: "I think it is just society in general, there is this view that if you haven't given birth to a child you couldn't possibly love him the same.

"He was just an innocent child who needed to be loved. He was adorable - he was naughty - but he was adorable."

The walk's aim is to raise a £1m fund for soldiers back from Afghanistan and other veterans in Wales.

In all, 11 teams travelled the anti-clockwise route around the Welsh coast, with more than 2,000 people signing up for different parts of the walk.

Each leg of the walk was in memory of one of the fallen.

On Saturday, the walk was led by Major John Thorneloe, father of Welsh Guard commander Lt Col Rupert Thornloe, who was killed in Helmand in 2009.

Monday 28 October 2013

Cambrian Patrol 2013

Well its that time of the year and the weather  is going down hill so it meas one thing, it time for the Cambrian Patrols.

Wednesday 2 October 2013

Saturday 28 September 2013

APRIL JONES.

The coffin of April Jones arrives at St Peter's church, Machynlleth, followed by a procession of mourners

Saturday 17 August 2013

New Belfast photos.







 As it was raining to day and cant cut the grass ,I spent the day in front of the PC looking throw my ~Belfast photos and doing a bit in photo shop.


Thursday 15 August 2013

Watchkeeper.

I was on driving to a  job just out side Cardigan and was passing aberporth when this thing in the sky court my eye and I new strait away it was the British UAV Watchkeeper,and as I haven't got any photos of it in flight I gust puled up and took the photos. and I new if I stayed to long there would be a police car on it way to see what I was up to.

Sunday 21 July 2013

A good week for photos in the papers

Well for this week the count is ten ,that's the ones I know off and have bean in all the major papers and this is from the times yesterday. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/defence/article3821080.ece

  All so It is the Sunday times today.

Friday 12 July 2013

Albertbridge Road in Belfast.

Loyalist protesters attacked police lines at the Albertbridge Road in Belfast. With the Orange Order demanding its right to walk traditional routes and Catholic residents objecting, the marching season often provides the backdrop for a period of tension on the streets.




 
On July 11, 'Eleventh Night' bonfires are lit in staunchly Protestant areas. Many are massive constructions of wooden pallettes, old sofas and rubber tyres topped with Irish flags or effigies of pro-Nationalist figures. Bonfire architects battle it out to see who can build the biggest, and shifts of young guardians ensure rival builders don't steal their burnable booty. At midnight the bonfires are set alight, and these raging infernos can be seen blazing across the city - the Shankill Road and Milltown Road (South Belfast) bonfires are two of Belfast's biggest.this is



Sandy Row bonfire.

Thursday 6 June 2013

1st Battalion Welsh Guards















1st battalion welsh guards, on the drill square at  Cavalry Barracks, HOUNSLOW, LONDON. As it is there troop this year  2013